I could have bid him come to-night--If the invisible powers are plotting against me, it is well.
Surely personal ambition alone could not have driven him into plotting the assassination of his best friend!
In the next scene the unfortunate young couple are represented as plotting with two other lovers, whose wedding-day is set, to circumvent their obdurate parents, and carry out their determination to become husband and wife.
The parts of the plotting lovers of the play had hitherto been taken by the brother and sister--Walter and Alice Kerby, who were well-known in society.
He accused the Dauphin, a girl named Ursula de Vesc, and one Hugues, the Dauphin's valet, of plotting against Your Majesty.
His eye wandered among his family, and it said, terrorised, and yet feebly defiant, "What are they plotting against me?
He almost felt guilty, almost felt as if he were plotting against his father's welfare.
Archbishop Robert, above all, was ever plottingagainst Godwine, Earl of the West- Saxons, the head of the national party.
Unluckily we know nothing of the state of feeling in England while William was plotting and pleading beyond the sea.
But men, high in the young duke's favour, were still plotting against him, and they presently began to plot, not only against their prince but against their country.
Miss Lethmere is a spy and, though she may be your friend, she is plotting your death!
But are we not secretly plotting the downfall of the Zeppelins--eh?
So, the deep widow has been unwittingly plotting against her own sister!
There they sat together the whole long day, plotting to get the better of the archdeacon, and to carry out little schemes of their own, which they knew would be opposed by the whole weight of his authority.
And flying from point to point, it struck him that they had known at Raynham of her return, and had sent him to town to be out of the way--they had been miserably plotting against him once more.
You ask me to wait, when they are plottingagainst us on all sides?
They've been plottingfor a year up to this day, and this is what comes of it!
Cymbeline was twice married: his second wife was a wicked, plotting woman, and a cruel stepmother to Imogen, Cymbeline's daughter by his first wife.
From these imaginary provocations, the plotting mind of Iago conceived a horrid scheme of revenge, which should involve both Cassio, the Moor, and Desdemona in one common ruin.
Whenever there is in the household more than one wife, jealousy, bickering, strife, and plotting are almost certain.
Then over both boys flashed the whole thing--the three old men plotting at Waikiki, the different snatches of talk they had heard, everything that pointed to the same end.
There was something about the gentle-faced old quartermaster, in spite of his plotting and his villainy, which attracted the boys--perhaps it was merely because he professed to like them.
Spain, Italy, and France were victims of the infamous plotting and disastrous intrigues of this one woman whose death, in 1531, was a blessing to the country which she had dishonored.
Woman, realizing the uselessness as well as danger of plotting against the inviolate person and power of the king, contented herself with scheming against those ministers whose attitudes she considered unfavorable to her plans.
Young Conway is at this very moment plotting how she may be domesticated with his mother, somewhere in Wales, I believe.
Annette and I have been plotting and planning such rare devices in 'toilette,' not exactly aware where or upon whom the captivations were to be exercised.
But what they especially wanted to know about was the rumour of plotting in favour of Mpande.
He was warned that his brother, Mpande, was plotting against him, and he knew better than to be caught between the Amabuna on one side and his own rebellious people on the other.
Instead, however, of leaving the country he lingers in the neighbourhood of Brabant, plotting with Ortrud how they may compass the ruin of Lohengrin and Elsa.
Mime isplotting to obtain possession of the ring and of Fafner's other treasures, and hopes to be aided in his designs by the lusty youth.
Thus within and without, mischief is plotting for the unsuspecting Elsa.
Hagen, seeing the object of all his plotting in their possession, plunges after them.
I perceive, from her gestures and glances, that our tricksy hostess is plotting some scheme with him.
In fact, he had unconsciously become little more than a puppet in the hands of the plotting Spaniard, who pulled the strings that moved him at pleasure, regardless of the consequences.
We do not know who the men were who were plotting or whom they were plotting against.
If Madame" (giving her the name by which her lodgers spoke of her) "wants me out of the way it is probably because they are plotting something against me.
You'll simply come to grief again if you go plotting something more.
